BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use, echoing key aspects of DeepSeek’s market-shaking breakthrough.
Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday that its new GLM-4.5 AI model would cost less than DeepSeek to use. In contrast to the logic underlying existing AI models, Z.ai said its new GLM-4.5 is built on what’s known as “agentic” AI, meaning that the model automatically breaks down a task into sub-tasks in order to complete it more accurately.
The new model is also open sourced, meaning it is free for developers to download and use.
At about half the size of DeepSeek’s model, GLM-4.5 only needs eight Nvidia
H20 chips to operate, Z.ai CEO Zhang Peng told CNBC on Monday.
